Chemical substance found in her body.
By Sreekanth A Nair
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has approved the report of All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) that poisoning was the cause of death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress Member of Parliament (MP) Shashi Tharoor.
FBI said that a dangerous chemical was present is her body and it may have lead to her death.
Sudhir Gupta, head of AIIMS Forensic Science department, said that FBI endorsed the report of AIIMS that poisoning was the reason behind her death.
However, the agency has not clearly said that whether there was any type of radioactive content in her body. At the same time, they haven’t completely eliminated the presence of a radioactive substance in viscera samples. But since the viscera samples were in a degraded condition they couldn’t understand the strength of the substances.
“It also endorsed the AIIMS post-mortem report saying the cause of death is poisoning. However, FBI additionally mentioned the presence of a dangerous chemical which may be the cause of the death if given injectable,” Gupta told Press Trust of India (PTI).
“The current investigation of the final viscera report submitted to the Delhi Police states that Sunanda Pushkar did not die a natural death… that is for certain. It was an unnatural death,” Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi said on Friday on receipt of the FBI report.
“It will take some time for us to go through the entire report as it also has several annexures. Once we go through the entire report, we will take the necessary steps,” he added.
Bassi ruled out the presence of any kind of radioactive substance in Pushkar’s body.
“I have no knowledge on the mention of any dangerous chemical in the FBI report. The FBI report had said none of the samples contained any radioactive material. I can confirm there’s no radioactive material but certain other findings are there. We had given the entire report to the medical board which has examined and gave us a report,” he said.
He also didn’t clearly say whether Tharoor would be questioned over the issue again.
Sunanda Pushkar, 51, was found dead in a luxurious hotel in New Delhi on January 17, 2014. The viscera samples of Pushkar were sent to the US since there was no facility in India to identify the poison content in her body. The police suspected that she died of some kind of poison.
Tharoor has been questioned several times by the police in connection with the case. Six people, including Narain Singh, Tharoor’s domestic help, driver Bajrangi and family friend Sanjay Dewan have undergone polygraph tests.
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The lie detector test,Narc-analysis and the brain mapping tests, are not admissable in the court of law as ruled by the Supreme Court of India. Question arises as to why these tests are done if they are not admissable. In few cases the police do get few clues that can lead to solving of the case. Out of the three, only the brain mapping is most accurate.
If this proves to be a case of poisoning, all the people in contact with her during the day of her death, should be arrested and hopefully one of them will squeal and the truth will come out.
Truth should prevail in this case.
The lie detector test and the Narc-analysis or the brain mapping tests are not admisable in the court of law. Out of the three only the brain mapping is most accurate. If this proves to be a case of poisoning, all the people in contact with her during the time of her death and week before her death should be arrested and one of them will squeal and the truth will come out.